CLU partners with Danish college

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – April 25, 2008) California Lutheran University and Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College have entered into an agreement that will allow students to earn tri-continental degrees.

The agreement is part of a program that will allow Niels Brock students to study in China, then Denmark and then at CLU to earn both Niels Brock degrees and CLU bachelor’s degrees. Chinese students will also be involved in the program.

Niels Brock President Anya Eskildsen, CLU President Chris Kimball and former CLU Interim President Howard Wennes signed the agreement. Eskildsen and Jytte Mansfield, head of international relations for Niels Brock, traveled to CLU’s Thousand Oaks campus for the signing. Representatives from both schools have been working on the project for a year.

CLU is partnering with Niels Brock in other ways as well. CLU business professor Paul Williams recently lectured at the Copenhagen college and a professor from Niels Brock will visit CLU this summer to work with students earning master’s degrees in business administration.

As part of CLU’s mission to educate leaders for a global society, the university also has formed partnerships with schools in Austria, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Tanzania and other European and Asian nations.

Niels Brock is the largest business college in Denmark with more than 40,000 students enrolled in more than 20 different educational programs.

California Lutheran University is a selective liberal arts and sciences university offering undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 3,200 students through its College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and School of Education.